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Hi, Does anyone know how to fix this? I get a message on startup that FM cannot find a default printer and that I should set one in the control panel. So I go to the control panel, where the check mark indicates Adobe PDF is the default printer, and I change it to a real printer in the office and go back to FM and try to print, but I get the same message, cannot find default printer and I am unable to print.Is there any history of this problem?ThanksLygia

Hello all,Our company uses Google docs extensively for all types of documentation. As the technical writer, I am the odd one out. Now, management tasked me with finding a way to bridge Framemaker [draft] content with Google docs. The reason is to provide the Engineers with a way to review and edit documents on a OS agnostic (and commonly used) platform.Unfortunately, Google docs isn't making this the least bit easy! In particular, Google docs severely limits PDF to gdocs conversion to about 10 pages. Even using Acrobat's Split Document tool (and then splitting the document into many smaller parts), I am still missing many pages!This has become a huge dilemma! Any ideas are appreciated. Thank you

We have a document ( 140 Pages long), which has a fixed text , chapters and also need to be produced 100+ variations of that doc based on variables for each book. We are building a database of variables and the values they take for each book. What we want to know is , Does Frame maker can take these variable values embedded into the doc ? if yes, what kind of interfaces are supported CSV, XML etc to take variables

When you need the title of the document importing into a document, you can use the variable <$filename>.This is useful as you can have a template that changes its name with the name of the file.However, the variable always writes the document name with the file extension (for example help.fm) making the variable useless.

Hello ,I have started trying to publish my documents to HTML5 via FM11's Publish pod.The output is quite good but when I try and create a book, or more than one file, I just get X FrameMaker book files could not be found.Any ideas?

When you shrinkwrap the graphic anchored frames in FM, the anchor position moves to "at insertion point" instead of staying at "below current line". This was not the default behavior with previous FrameMaker versions (before FM 11).Have you heard of any hotfix or workaround for this issue?ThanksNote: currently using FM 12.0.3

The files are on a networked drive. Win7. FM 8. I've renamed files. Regenerated. Created a new book. Nothing works.I do have hyphens and underscores in the file names but no other special characters.Need help urgently.The error message is:Cannot find file named  \SOL\Data\TechDocs\DRAFT\Shiva\OperatorManual\096-0461-001C-1.             fm.             Make sure that the file exists.______________Note that the TOC and INDEX are listed in the book w/o a path while the body chapter has the entire path (above) listed in the book view.Thanks

Hi,I have 2 documents. The first one is 4 pages and all pages are 8.5" x 11". The second document is 1 page and is 8.5" x 14". Is it possible to insert the 8.5" x 14" page from the second document into the first document, but make it the 4th page? (therefore making the original 4th page in the first document the 5th page...it's a revision history table so it has to be on the last page and I would prefer the 8.5" x 14" page (a flow chart) to come before it.Apologies if this is a bit confusing....Thanks!

I have FrameMaker 12 (purchased, not subscribed) and will be swapping my PC tomorrow (newer model).  In the past, I used Help->Deactivate prior to uninstalling Frame to avoid a call to support.  But my FrameMaker 12 does not have a Deactivate option. What steps should I take to ease reinstallation on the new PC?thanks, Paul

Installed new motherboard in computer and now FM10 says it needs to reactivate but has reached its activation limit. Had this problem once before a couple years ago and there was a phone number to call at Adobe to resolve the issue. The new Adobe web support system won't even get to a contact-us page, it keeps recycling back to "select your product" page.  Need adobe phone number to get my copy of Framemaker 10 to reactivate.

(Connecting FM11 to SH2010)While attempting to connect with Connection Manager, I get the response "The request failed with an empty response"Any idea what to inspect next?The SP2010 site connects as expected through Internet Explorer, so the user credentials are probably correct.Best regards,

I have changed to the larger icon size in options. When I reduce the resolution to half its ok, but Framemaker is a design product and should be able to handle monitors greater than 22 inches. I have no problem like this with Versions 10 and 11.Any idea what I can do?Thanks a lot.

I am using unstructured FM 11. I want to create unique Parts List tables. I want the heading rows to come pre-populated with Part Number, Source, Nomenclature (and others as needed). I create the table and its format. I populate the cells as I want. Then save the table as the name/format I want. However, I go to insert a new table with that name, and all the cells are blank. What am I doing wrong?

Hi,I have two licenses for FrameMaker 8. One of them is for the copy I have installed on my PC at work, which I use every day. I have no idea where the other license is. I'm on my third PC since I've been working here, so for all I know, the license was activated on one of those PCs and I didn't think to deactivate it before IT came and hauled away the old one.I called Adobe customer support and the guy I spoke to told me that Adobe can't deactivate licenses, only I can. So I asked him to explain how I can do that. He said that I had to do it from the PC where I had activated it. I explained that the old PC was gone and I had no access to it. Tech support guy says, "We already gave you an extra license back in 2010, so I can't give you any more." What? Who's asking for extra licenses? I simply want to deactivate one of the ones that seems to be in use (but in reality, it is not) so I can install FrameMaker on another machine. A trial license isn't an option - I want to be able to use t

Okay, what am I missing? When I save my mif back as fm, I open the fm, I see the mif-text.1) Save as MIF (for FM 12). I make sure the extension is .mif.2) File > Open. I select the .mif file and ctrl+click Open and select the default to access the mif text. So far so good.3) Without making changes to the mif (cos am just testing), I use File > Save as and choose document 12.0 (.fm) and change the extension to .fm.An .fm file is the result, but when I open it in FrameMaker I only see text as though looking at the mif source.Thoughts?

Yesterday I added a new variable to one FM file then noticed most of my system variables had disappeared. Now even when opening any other file, or even starting a new file, most of the system variables are missing. Suggestions?  FM11 v 11.0.2.384

I have been searching around on the Internet to find an automated solution to the following manual process:Generate and update an entire book.Manually generate each chapter TOC to get the page numbers and headings correct in the chapter TOC. This means open each chapter, generate the TOC,save and close.Generate and update the entire book again to make sure the imported TOC files were all updated properly in each file.Spot check to make sure step 3 didn't add pages I didn't expect and thus made the chapter level TOC out of date.Possibly do steps 1 - 4 a second time.From what I have read, it seems that I need a Frame script to automate this process. Are there any other solutions? If not, can someone recommend a scripting provider?This is for an unstructured book. Thanks in advance.Kim

When I use FrameMaker 12 on my laptop with an external monitor, it looks great. But if I use it on my laptop's screen it's unusable. Menus and icons are too small, some UI elements are missing or drawn incorrectly, and some dialogs don't appear after I select a command. The documents' contents look fine. It's just the FrameMaker UI elements that look wrong. And yes, I've tried Control-L.  Any idea what the problem could be?FWIW, I'm using a Dell Inspiron 15 (7537, Mid 2013) running Windows 8.1 with FrameMaker 12.0.3.424 with the unstructured interface. Here's a picture of what the UI looks like:

Hi.I am writing a program to delete condition tag.But if any text is tagged with the tag I'm deleting,I need to make the text unconditional.Can some one tell me how to do this?Best regarderieru

Can I populate a mail message using the "message mailto" command?  I"m trying have not only the e-mail address populate, but have the message itself populate.TIAMary

(FM11 on Win7 to Documentum)Well, that's news to me: the path name for book upload to Documentum is case-sensitive.So "_insets" and "_Insets" are created in separate folders in Documentum.Makes sense with FM's UNIX legacy, but it's been so long for me....Is this case-sensitivity a configurable option?In my case, turning it off would be faster than a MIF editing cycle.Best regards,

Hello I just upgraded" from version 7 to 12 Unstructured. Whenever i open old *.fm file's I get this repeated message:It is also repeated for wfilt32w.ini, cmmap000.binebbmp2.ini and ebjpg2.iniThese files exist in the filters directory of the FM12 directory.Is there a way to set a path to the Filter directory of FM12?Or is there a easyer solution?GreetingsJoha v.d.Mark

I need to create chapter level TOCs that include multiple files per chapter. Can this be done using groups or folders?

I have a fat table to build, so the traditional A4 size page doesn't fit any more, I want a "fat" page, but only one page.